Moltó, Maria José Gil; Poyago-Theotoky, Joanna; … - 2010
We examine the use of subsidies to R&D in a mixed and a private duopoly market. We show that the socially optimal R …&D subsidy is increasing in the degree of spillovers but it is lower in the private duopoly. The optimal R&D subsidy leads to an … efficient distribution of production costs. We also find that privatization of the public firm reduces R&D activity and welfare …